Issue: 68

Every time a politician uses the word “quota,” it’s because he’d rather not talk about the real reasons that we’ve lost almost 3 million jobs. At Howard University Lyndon Johnson established a muscular, principled, historically-rooted rationale for vigorous affirmative action as national public policy. Johnson then announced “a White House conference of scholars, and experts,…

In a period of painfully close presidential elections, with the most dangerous White House in history hoping to extend its criminal reign, every American vote in 2004 is potentially a matter of life and death for masses of people at home and abroad. It is exceedingly significant, therefore, that 4.4 million Americans are disenfranchised due…

A public schools demolition crew is in charge at the U.S. Department of Education. As documented by People for the American Way in their mid-November report, “Funding a Movement,” in the last two years the department has doled out more than $75 million to education privateers and pro-voucher con artists hell-bent on subverting the very…

In Phoenix, Arizona a 67-year old white man mixed anti-anxiety medication with alcohol and then got behind the wheel of his car. He struck another car but didn’t stop as required by law. He was apprehended only because another motorist followed him and called police. When the heavily medicated driver finally encountered police he used…

The following article was originally published as “Remembrance of Decembers Past” in the Philippines newspaper TODAY. It is the beginning of the last month of 2003 – the year America invaded and occupied Iraq. Welcome, December, month of solace and tribulation. You remind us of many things. The great Janis Joplin made her final appearance…